Williams Team Wins Literacy Bee
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Marcus .11 kI IVnn\ Williams tor
livlly spelled llir WOlds "hemot
ihage" ami "saicopliagus ' l?? wm ilic
Brunswick Counts I iiotacs Council
adult spelling Kv last sseek.
I k* husband and wile loam rep
resenting Buuisssick Islands \1cd
ical Assiviates defeated I s other
two- pel son teams lioin acioss I Ik"
counts in the Spell I or I itei.iv > Ive
last Tliuistla) at Hiunsssuk
Coiumumts College
Mis W illiams, who lias a h.K'lie
lor 's degiee in antluoivlogy. a mas
tor's degiee in hhiaty science aiul
has studied live languages, said Iter
education definitely helped out.
Williams, a Sliallotte aiea pli\
cian competing in Ins lust spelling
Ive since tiie seventh giade. said lie
wasn't caught oil guaul l<\ (lie Imal
two words.
lie said lie dicamcil about a sar
cophagus the night Ivloic the Ive.
As lor the woid heinorili.ige. the in
tetnal medicine specialist said. I've
written that one a lew times."
'Ihe Biunswick Counts ScIhh?Is
team ol Ciloria Nouut and Ann
Sinclair, who won last sear's adult
Ive. made another stiong showing
this year, finishing in second place
In ilu' I'mal round. they mis
spelled the word hemorrhage ami
opened llio door lor the KIMA
loam
( >n ilic way to i ho final round, iho
Williamses correctly spelled cio
chct. ilooiphor. tortilla. myrrh, oln
oaiiorv. soliloquy and malocclusion
I liey viul the only word present
oil 1 1 uring iho competition thai they
didn't know was "ukulele."
West Brunswick High Schools
loam of Eli/ahcth Erickson and
Melha Johnson w.iv eliminated on
ih.it word in tho tilth round.
During the coni|viiluHi. teams
were eiven W seconds to collnho
rate on each word and I s seconds t?>
s|Vll It.
leant* eliminated hi ttu- iu-t
round were sponsored In iho
Brunswick County 1Vuhvi.uk
Party, Umteil Carolina Hank, flic
State Port Pilot and Security
Sav ings & l oan.
Second round casualties were
Southern Boll. Atlantic Telephone
Momlvrship Corp. and Carolina
Power \ 1 iuht Company.
I lie field was narrowed to lour
live teams misspelled words over
I lie no xi throe rounds, loams \|?>n
sored by Brunswick Couunumlv
College. The Brunswick Beacon.
Hxido I'kvtromcs. Dis. Madison
and Ward and West Brunswick High
School wore eliminated.
Besides BIMA and Brunswick
County Schools, those making it to
the I inal lout wore the NCNB
National Bank team ol Sara l-'step
and John Stevenson and the
Comprehensive Home Health Care
team ot Wynn Caison and Rosie
Scarborough.
The hoc started with a "warm up"
round to introduce the contestants
and educate the audience about the
Brunswick County Literacy
Council.
Masters ol ceremonies lor the bee
wore Kitty Kit/gibbon ol WWAY
I V * and Don Pardon ol WD/.l) ra
dio. Charlotte Maher was the tiino
keo|vr.
Judges were the Rev. Thurman
Hverett. president ol Helping Hands
ol Brunswick County; Marie
Harrison, chairperson ol the Bruns
wick County Library Board; anil
Kelly llolden. chairman ol the
Brunswick County Board of
Commissioners.
How Do You Spell
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Sixteen teams from actoss the counts participated in the Brunswick
;iy.
round in which
C\'tinl> Literacy Council adult spelling bee last l"hursd;
Listed below aic the teams in order i>l finish, the
thev a etc eliminated and the woul thev misspelled.
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1. Brunxuick Islands Medical .Vsiviates
2. Brunswick County Schools S hemorrhage
Comprehensive Home Health Cue 7 silhouette
4 NCNB National Rank 7 boutonniere
5. West Biunsw ick I ligli Svluvl 5 ukulele
6. Din. Madison and Ward 4 gerontoU?gy
7. L-.\kle Llcclronics 4 schism
5 lite Biunsiv ick Beacon 4 rhinoceros
u. Brunswick Community College 3 quire
1(1. Caiolina Power <& Light 2 languorous
11. Atlantic Telephone Membership Coi p. 2 cirrus
12. Southern Bell 2 sieve
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14. The Suite Port Pilot 1 flammable
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(left) and (lloria Yuunt collaborate on the spilling of a word. Tiny
won the 1990 bee and finished second this year.
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MOSt i IJiWIS (right), assistant superintendent for curriculum with Brunswick County Schools, talks
about his weaknesses as a speller before presenting a plaque to the winning team, Marcus and Penny
Williams.
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